Adults are not learning to recognize masked faces during the pandemic, a study has found.
Despite exposure to masked faces for 2 1/2 years, adults still have difficulty recognizing someone whose face is obscured by a face covering, according to the York University study.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“This tells us that the adult brain doesn’t seem to have the ability to change how it processes faces, even when presented with masked faces over an extended period of time,” says York University Assistant Professor Erez Freud, the study’s senior author. Humans can extract significant information from brief exposure to a person’s face, including their identity, gender, emotion, age, and race.
Previous research showed that adults’ facial recognition abilities decreased by about 15% when a person wore a mask using the Cambridge Face Memory Test , considered the standard test of facial recognition abilities.
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